Maintainers

Ownership of the codebase is intentionally team-based rather than per-file. CODEOWNERS routes every PR to a HashiCorp team.

Official ownership (CODEOWNERS)

*                                       @hashicorp/consul-selfmanage-maintainers @hashicorp/team-consul-core
/.release/                              @hashicorp/consul-selfmanage-maintainers @hashicorp/team-selfmanaged-releng
/.github/workflows/build.yml            @hashicorp/consul-selfmanage-maintainers @hashicorp/team-selfmanaged-releng

In practice this means every change goes to the Consul Self-Manage Maintainers team and the Consul Core team for review, with release-pipeline-touching changes adding the Self-Managed Releng team.

Most active recent contributors

Top contributors by commit count since 2024-01-01 (excluding bot accounts), based on git log of the default branch:

#	Contributor	Commits
1	Michael Zalimeni	55
2	John Murret	45
3	Jeff Boruszak	42
4	Sarah Alsmiller	38
5	Rishabh Gupta	37
6	Dan Stough	36
7	Nathan Coleman	31
8	John Maguire	26
9	Suresh Kuppusamy	25
10	Sreeram Narayanan	25
11	Deniz Onur Duzgun	25
12	P Ajay Rao	21
13	Nitin Sachdev	19
14	Vikramarjuna	18
15	Sanika Chavan	17
16	R.B. Boyer	17
17	Matt Keeler	17
18	Wang Xinyi	16
19	Derek Menteer	16
20	Krastin Krastev	15

These are inferred from git log and aren't an authoritative team roster. The names map to public GitHub accounts but the cadence shifts as people change roles. For PR review or sensitive issues, prefer routing through the CODEOWNERS teams listed above.

How to engage

• Bug reports / feature requests: open an issue in hashicorp/consul. Maintainers triage with type/bug, type/enhancement, etc.
• Pull requests: the CODEOWNERS team auto-requests review. Tag a specific maintainer in the description if you've coordinated with one.
• Security disclosures: email security@hashicorp.com. Don't open public issues for vulnerabilities.
• Operational questions: the HashiCorp Discuss forum is more responsive than GitHub for usage questions.

Project-wide context

Consul is governed by HashiCorp's open-source policies. The Community Edition (CE) lives in this repo under the BUSL 1.1 license. The Enterprise edition has additional features and runs from a private fork; CE/ENT shared code is kept in this repo and Enterprise-only code lives in HashiCorp's internal tree.